that is, mickey rooney. so that was an interesting time for my day.he heard the and her sisters sing life. he heard glenn miller play at a uso function at the states in august of 44, the very weak that glenn miller was promoted to captain to major. but tragically four months later glenn miller's plane went missing recently over the english channel, never to be found. he also got to see joe dimaggio who is head of recreation and training at one of the bases my dad was sent. so his letters are filled with little snippets of life back in the '40s. my mom would write about a washout in the backyard and how we would bring. they didn't have a dry. the wash would stay out on the line because it was going to get wet anyway so it would have to drive all over again. again, these are kind of interesting things. it takes the reader back to a different era in our nation's history. also how much they were deeply in love and how much they wanted a family. my mom predicted they would have five children, and sure enough, they had five children. she wrote on one letter